Repeat

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Scheduled and recurring tasks
• Tasks that involve Hooks and plugins

Example prompts

• “/repeat”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, Agent

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Interval — duration between iterations (default: 10m)
2. 2Command or prompt — the slash command or freeform prompt to execute each iteration
3. 3Flags

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit d64db2b. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Grep
  • Glob
  • Bash
  • Agent

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are json and bash).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Repeat loads about 1.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 38 tokens; SKILL.md has 319 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~38

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

• NotePre-approves every shell command (allowed-tools: Bash)SKILL.md

  allowed-tools: Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, Agent

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from softspark/ai-toolkit at commit d64db2b, republished under its Apache-2.0 licence (© softspark). 319 words, ~1,189 tokens.

name

repeat

description

Runs prompt/slash command on recurring interval until done or limit. Triggers: repeat, recurring task, poll status, run every N minutes, interval.

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Grep, Glob, Bash, Agent

user-invocable

true

effort

medium

argument-hint

[interval] [command or prompt] (e.g., /repeat 5m /test, defaults to 10m)

For iteration = 1 to max_iterations:
    1. Log iteration start (timestamp, iteration number)
    2. Execute the command or prompt
    3. Capture output and exit status
    4. Check exit detection:
       - If completion marker found -> STOP, report success
    5. Check circuit breaker:
       - If failure: increment consecutive_failures
       - If success: reset consecutive_failures to 0
       - If consecutive_failures >= 3 -> HARD STOP, report failure
    6. Log iteration result to stats
    7. If not last iteration: wait for interval duration
    8. Repeat

After loop ends:
    - Print summary: total iterations, pass/fail counts, elapsed time
    - Final status: COMPLETED | EARLY_SUCCESS | CIRCUIT_BREAKER | MAX_ITERATIONS

{
  "loop_runs": [
    {
      "id": "loop-<timestamp>",
      "command": "/test",
      "interval": "5m",
      "max_iterations": 5,
      "started_at": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z",
      "iterations": [
        {
          "number": 1,
          "timestamp": "2026-04-01T10:00:00Z",
          "result": "pass",
          "exit_code": 0,
          "summary": "All 42 tests passed"
        },
        {
          "number": 2,
          "timestamp": "2026-04-01T10:05:00Z",
          "result": "fail",
          "exit_code": 1,
          "summary": "3 tests failed"
        }
      ],
      "final_status": "EARLY_SUCCESS",
      "ended_at": "2026-04-01T10:10:00Z"
    }
  ]
}

# Run tests every 5 minutes until all pass (max 5 iterations)
/repeat 5m /test

# Poll deployment status every 10 minutes
/repeat 10m "check deploy status"

# Run review max 3 times at default interval
/repeat --iterations 3 /review

# Lint every 2 minutes, up to 10 times
/repeat 2m --iterations 10 /lint

# Monitor CI pipeline every 5 minutes
/repeat 5m "check if CI pipeline passed for current branch"

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Files

Just SKILL.md in app/skills/repeat of softspark/ai-toolkit.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit d64db2b